Calls for Tamar River Canal

“We’re a first-world city, we should not have to put up with this sort of facility in the centre of our city,” he said.

“We just accept it because it’s always been there, but we don’t have to accept it.”

Consultant naval architect Mike Seward likewise called for more action on the state of the Tamar River, presenting viable options for a canal to divert flow coming from the Trevallyn Power Station along the Trevallyn bank.

“A city that once thought of itself as at the forefront of progress – the first gas lights, the first hydro, the first operation under anesthetic in the Southern Hemisphere … should not have a waterfront like this,” he said.